Marston plant closes down until further notice

MARSTON Mo. (KBSI) – Magnitude 7 Metals has announced that they will be closing its doors for the foreseeable future.

Many families and lives are being destroyed as they find out within one day that they will no longer have a job after Friday.

“With the way that they broke it, just four-day notice was kind of short.” Employees with Magnitude 7 Metals, an aluminum plant in Marston, say they were handed a letter from their employers, stating a shutdown would take place in three to five days.

Landon McDaniel is an employee for the plant, he says a ripple effect has begun due to the shutdown, “It sucks, it definitely sucks, this place is, it’s going hurt, it’s going to impact the community bad. Specially in New Madrid County, I know that they provide a lot for the schools and county sheriff’s department, I know they laid a lot of people off, I just, it’s terrible.”

The plant cites abnormally cold weather to be the cause of closure.

Seth Pipkin, is a two-year industrial electrician and says he was relying on getting five years of experience to move up to a larger plant, “No notice or anything and the owners just kind of gave everybody a note and said to hit the road and no warning.”

Justin Pashia is also an industrial electrician with the plant, with a family he has to provide for, he says with no warning it leaves little time to find new prospects, “I mean I’ve got a wife and a daughter that I have to provide for, so I’m trying to do what I have to.”

In a statement from the mayor of Marston, Rebecca Redden says, ‘The people that come here to work spend money at our stations, rent properties in our town and now without a job, it’s going to hurt us all.'”

More updates will be available soon.